Sr. Initiative Delivery Manager

pacificlife; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Life seeks a Sr. Initiative Delivery Manager to join its Portfolio & Delivery team in Newport Beach, CA or Omaha, NE. You will turn complex, high-priority initiatives into actionable delivery plans that drive business outcomes and partner across business, technology, operations, and leadership.

You will work with a team of five in the Institutional division, developing plans, tracking benefits, maintaining artifacts, and supporting governance, escalation, and value realization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in analytical field, business, or CS or equivalent.
• 5+ years in project, program, or delivery management.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives with hybrid/agile approaches.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• PM certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, execution, and closure of strategic initiatives.
• Define outcomes, benefits, and success metrics throughout lifecycle.
• Create and maintain delivery artifacts (plans, schedules, RAID logs, logs).
• Coordinate across business, technology, operations, product, finance, risk, and legal.
• Provide concise, decision-oriented communications to sponsors and leaders.
• Drive governance readiness and value realization activities.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Strong communication

Analytical problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in analytical field, business or CS

Job description

Providing for loved ones, planning rewarding retirements, saving enough for whatever lies ahead - our policyholders count on us to be there when it matters most. It's a big ask, but it's one that we have the power to deliver when we work together. We collaborate and innovate - pushing one another to transform not just Pacific Life, but the entire industry for the better. Why? Because it's the right thing to do. Pacific Life is more than a job, it's a career with purpose. It's a career where you have the support, balance, and resources to make a positive impact on the future - including your own.

We're actively seeking a talented Sr. Initiative Delivery Manager to join our Portfolio & Delivery team in Newport Beach, CA or Omaha, NE.

As a Sr. Initiative Delivery Manager, you'll move Pacific Life, and your career, forward by turning complex, high-priority initiatives into clear, actionable delivery plans that drive business outcomes. You will partner across business, technology, operations, and leadership teams to create alignment, manage trade-offs, and keep strategic work moving forward.

You will fill an existing role that sits on a team of 5 people in the Institutional division. Your colleagues will include fellow project and portfolio management professionals.

How you'll help move us forward:

• Lead planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of strategic, operational, and cross-functional initiatives.
• Define, track, and measure expected business outcomes, benefits, and success metrics throughout the initiative lifecycle.
• Create and maintain core delivery artifacts, including project plans, schedules, milestones, RAID logs, decision logs, resource plans, charters, status updates, and dependency maps.
• Drive clarity around scope, success criteria, ownership, roles, decision rights, dependencies, capacity, budget considerations, and escalation paths.
• Coordinate work across business, technology, operations, product, finance, risk, legal, compliance, actuarial, vendor, and other stakeholder groups.
• Drive alignment and decision-making through credibility, influence, stakeholder partnership, and data-driven recommendations.
• Monitor initiative budgets, forecasts, and financial assumptions to identify risks, trade-off opportunities, and decision points that may impact scope, timing, value, or capacity.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and delivery health concerns.
• Frame escalations as clear decision requests with context, impact, options, recommendation, owner, and timing.
• Support governance and stage gate readiness, including sponsor engagement, SteerCo discipline, SLT/DRMC preparation, operational readiness, and value realization activities.
• Provide concise, transparent, decision-oriented communications tailored to project teams, sponsors, senior leaders, and enterprise partners.
• Promote accountability, urgency, collaboration, and respectful challenge while maintaining trust and partnership across teams.
• Contribute to delivery practice maturity through use of playbooks, templates, retrospectives, process improvements, and repeatable ways of working.

The experience you bring:

• Bachelor's degree in an analytical field, business, computer science, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5+ years of project management, program management, delivery management, business analysis, or related experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives using traditional, agile, hybrid, or right-sized delivery approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex work independently, solve problems, elevate appropriately, and operate with minimal guidance.
• Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate complex information into clear business language and tailor messages for different audiences.
• Project management certification or equivalent delivery discipline preferred.
• Financial services, insurance, product development, operations, technology, or regulated-industry experience preferred.

What makes you stand out:

• Brings structure and momentum to ambiguous or undefined work.
• Creates executive-ready communications that move from status to decisions, trade-offs, and outcomes.
• Constructively challenges scope, timelines, assumptions, and ownership while preserving strong relationships.
• Balances speed, value, risk, quality, capacity, and operational readiness.
• Influences without authority and aligns stakeholders across a matrixed environment.
• Demonstrates curiosity, resilience, sound judgment, partnership, and a bias for action.

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Base Pay Range:

The base pay range noted represents the company's good faith minimum and maximum range for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be dependent upon several factors, including but not limited to experience, qualifications and geographic location. Also, most employees are eligib